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Jun 13, 2016 · American Playhouse’s association with PBS and a steady stream of funding support allowed it to have the impact that it did during its first twelve years of operation. The possibilities that Waiting enjoyed in 1986, however, would not endure to the next phase of American Playhouse’s evolution.
- Chelsea McCracken
- 2016
American Playhouse is an American anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). [1][2][3] Overview. It premiered on January 12, 1982, with The Shady Hill Kidnapping, written and narrated by John Cheever and directed by Paul Bogart.
American Playhouse: With Jeffrey DeMunn, Elizabeth Franz, Edward Herrmann, Sada Thompson. Anthology series which ran on PBS throughout the 1980s.
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Mar 29, 1994 · American Playhouse, which over the last 14 years has produced nearly 200 original dramas for public television -- among them "Stand and Deliver," "The Thin Blue Line" and "Longtime Companion"...
This occasional dramatic anthology series from the American Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) premiered on 12 January 1982. The debut broadcast was The Shady Hill Kidnapping, written and narrated by John Cheever and directed by Paul Bogart.
View Interview. Nina Shaw on a seminal deal at Dern, Mason, Swerdlow & Floum that became the basis for the film Stand and Deliver, and before that, for an episode of American Playhouse. 01:50.
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One of PBS's most distinguished series, mounting superb dramas and musicals by the likes of (to name just a few) Eugene O'Neill, John Cheever, Lanford Wilson, Mark Twain, Thornton Wilder, James...